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The Autonomous Duck: Exploring the Possibilities of a Markov Chain Model in Animation

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This document reports the construction of a framework for the generation of animations based in a Markov chain model of the different poses of some drawn character. The model was implemented and is demonstrated with the animation of a virtual duck in a random walk. Some potential uses of this model in interpolation and generation of in between frames are also explored.

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  1. Vivonets Lab, Experimental Visualization Lab, Media Arts & Technology University of California Santa Barbara, USA

    Javier Villegas

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, 26047, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Fay Huang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, No. 1, Sec.2, Da Hsueh Rd. Shoufeng, 97401, Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Reen-Cheng Wang

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Villegas, J. (2010). The Autonomous Duck: Exploring the Possibilities of a Markov Chain Model in Animation. In: Huang, F., Wang, RC. (eds) Arts and Technology. ArtsIT 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11577-6_34

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